July 2017

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Features

21 – Movers and shakers. Marianka Swain meets leading practitioners in the field of movement direction

25 – Staying afloat. Gerald Dowler finds out how dance is funded

33 – The memoirs of Nadia Nerina. Nadia Nerina dances Giselle with the Kirov Ballet

37 – Feel the purple. Laura Dodge visits SLP College in Leeds

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Dance Today

82 – Tips on technique. By James Whitehead

83 – Technique clinic. By Phil Meacham

84 – Simon’s Guide to Swing. By Simon Selmon

85 – Stepping Out. By Marianka Swain

86 – Notes from the dance floor. Vikki Jane Vile reviews Karen and Kevin Dance

88 – Somewhere in time. By Jack Reavely

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Regulars

6 – News. Dance Umbrella 2017

12 – Letters

15 – Talking Point. By Stephanie Jordan

40 – Variety Lights. Barbara Newman sees On the Town and Working

42 – FRANCE/dance. By Laura Cappelle

44 – Letter from St Petersburg. Igor Stupnikov meets Andrian Fadeyev, director of the Yakobson Ballet Theatre

47 – Notes from New York. Jack Anderson sees Alexei Ratmansky’s Whipped Cream

49 – Media. New books and DVDs

51 – Dance Scene. Reviews include Ballet Theatre UK, Scottish Ballet, Richard Alston Dance Company, Hong Kong Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet

91 – People. English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer, Queen’s Birthday Honours

92 – Dancer of the Month. Margaret Willis meets Scottish Ballet’s Victor Zarallo

96 – Obituaries. David Dean, Lois Strike, Sergei Vikharev

99 – Products

103 – Education. School of Ballet Theatre UK, Dance Forward, National Youth Ballet

106 – Health. Debbie Malina discovers how reflexology can be beneficial to dancers

109 – Classified

110 – Calendar. Our guide to what’s on stage in the UK and abroad, including future programmes for a number of US-based companies and venues

118 – Listings. Where to learn to dance in the UK

122 – Last Dance. We look back to July 1977